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Glossary of Ecology Terms
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ecosystem
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noun
  1. A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit.
  2. The interconnectedness of organisms (plants, animals, microbes) with each other and their environment.
ectocommensal
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noun
  1. A commensal organism that lives on the surface of another organism
EIR
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initialism
  1. Excess Information Rate
emergent
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adjective
  1. emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent
  2. occurring unexpectedly or in an emergency
  3. Observable in a high-level view of a complex system but barely deducible from the description of its components
(wikipedia, emergence)
endangered species
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noun
  1. A species which has almost gone extinct.
The federal government has added five new birds to the list.
endobiotic
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adjective
  1. (context, of a parasite or symbiont) living within the tissues of a host
endosymbiont
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noun
  1. Ecology. An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
endosymbiosis
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noun (endosymbioses)
  1. (ecology) A condition of living within the body or cells of another organism.
Environment
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proper noun
  1. (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
epizoic
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adjective
  1. living or growing on the external surface of an animal (not always as a parasite)
eutrophic
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noun
  1. (medicine) a eutrophic medicine
adjective
  1. (context, of a swamp etc) being rich in nutrients and minerals and therefore having an excessive growth of algae and thus a diminished oxygen content to the detriment of other organisms
  2. (medicine) promoting nutrition

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